This useful design can be found in Typo 3.

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An alphabet that’s both categorical and musical. HORN Alphorn Bullhorn Car Horn Drinking Horn English Horn French Horn Greenhorn Horn Inkhorn Jawhorn Krummhorn Leghorn Matterhorn New Horn Old Horn Pronghorn Quadruple Horn Ramshorn Stinkhorn Tinhorn Überhorn Valve Horn Waldhorn Xanthohorn Yak Horn Zink

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A quiet piece for Bb whistle and percussion. The Bb whistle is lower than the standard instrument in D; it’s like the viola to the D’s violin. No percussion sound is repeated.  

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To celebrate the release of the movie The Mothman Prophecies, based on the book by John Keel, Fortean Times published a special Mothman issue (#156, April 2002). I contributed an interview with John, aided by George Kuchar and Mamie Caton, as well as a Keelian bio and bibliography. I also wrote a short article about […]

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This description of an artificial auxiliary language, which I hope is fictional, was one of my contributions to the Scat Noir Encyclopaedia. This book is still available from Amazon, and provides ample entertainment and instruction. HOOHOO: Hoohoo is an artificial auxiliary language, developed by Dr. Ernst Babner in the early twentieth century. Dr. Babner, a […]

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This retelling of the classic tale can be found in my book The Doug Skinner Dossier. Both Hansel and Gretel are based closely on my sister. Here’s how it begins. HANSEL AND GRETEL AND I Hansel and Gretel and I lived with our father and evil stepmother in a little bungalow out near the forest. […]

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All of Robert Herrick’s rhymes are replaced. This is what he’d be like if he were different. HERRICK RERHYMED Gather ye Rose-buds while ye might, Old Time is still a tilting: And this same flower that smiles so bright, To morrow will be wilting. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, his place The higher he’s a […]

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A song from the White Knuckle Sandwich CD. Always a lively number!

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We have here another excerpt from my upcoming collection, The Snowman Three Doors Down. In “Herbert’s New Profession,” our protagonist chooses a rather unlikely job to earn some extra money. Here’s how it begins… HERBERT’S NEW PROFESSION My name is Herbert Shrike. I’m 75 years young now, as of my last birthday. I’ll be 76 […]

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I don’t see the point of sitting through a movie, so I wrote a song about it. I hope I made my position clear.

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